All good things must come to an end, and, in contrast to a lot of great shows that overstayed their welcome (*Cough* Game of Thrones), it seems like Stranger Things is going to pull the plug at the right time.
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| Stranger Things season 5 to be released in 2024, will be shorter than season 4 |
Four seasons in, we finally know – more or less – what the endgame is following the feature-length season four finale, and season five, which has already been announced as the show's last, is shaping up to be a beast of a conclusion to Netflix's biggest series.
Here's everything we know about the final season so far.
Stranger Things season 5 to be released in 2024, will be shorter than season 4
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When will Stranger Things season five be released?
According to David Harbour, the series is likely to begin filming next year, with an eye toward a summer 2024 release date. “I think we’ll [shoot] next year. They’re finishing writing it this year, and they need to prep and stuff, so hopefully it’ll be this year,” Harbour told GQ. “But I think that’s the plan. So it’d probably come out mid-2024, based on our track record.”
What is going to happen in season five?
At the end of season four, Big Bad Vecna won the battle for Hawkins, creating a rift in the barrier between our reality and the Upside Down, merging the two worlds. It means there'll be nothing stopping Vecna and his army of demogorgons and demobirds from attacking the town and its inhabitants.
So, it seems like season five will see Eleven and co attempting to fend off these evil forces, close the entry point to the Upside Down permanently and kill Vecna once and for all. Sounds like a spicy one.
Will season five have the same whopper episode lengths as season four?
According to the Duffer Brothers, no. After dropping a set of 1.5-hour episodes this time around, the Duffers say they'll be able to get things done a little bit quicker in season five, thanks to the cliffhanger ending allowing them to skip through the preamble of previous outings. “The only reason we don’t expect to be as long is, this season, if you look at it, it’s almost a two-hour ramp up before our kids really get drawn into a supernatural mystery,” they said.
“You get to know them, you get to see them in their lives, they’re struggling with adapting to high school and so forth, Steve’s trying to find a date, all of that. None of that is obviously going to be occurring [in season five]."
They did say, however, that they'll probably do a feature-length finale again, and given it's going to be the last ever episode (of the show in its current format, anyway), that sounds like a good thing.
Is Max dead? Is Sadie Sink coming back in season five?
Sadly, it's still unclear. As far as we know, Max is in a coma. But when Eleven tried to find her in the void toward the end of the finale, she was nowhere to be found. Sadie Sink, who plays Max, says she doesn't know if Max is dead or alive, or whether she'll be back next season.
“I have no idea what’s coming in five and what that looks like,” Sink told Deadline. “Max’s storyline is very up in the air, ’cause obviously she’s in a coma and Eleven can’t find her in the void. So who knows where she is and what state she’s in.”
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